Calvin Trillin
Calvin Trillin
Calvin Marshall Trillinis an American journalist, humorist, food writer, poet, memoirist and novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 December 1935
CountryUnited States of America
crazy thinking trying
With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.
father thinking yale
Before I was born [my father] wanted me to go specifically to Yale, which he thought would help. It was easy for him to think I could be president: he didn't have to worry about being president himself, being ineligible because he wasn't born in the United States.
thinking two way
By the way, did you fellows know that a hummingbird weighs as much as a quarter? Do you think a hummingbird also weighs the same as two dimes and a nickel? But then she asked a question of her own: How do they weigh a hummingbird?
home thinking world
Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy.
writing self-confidence thinking
I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes immediately to mind -- but it's difficult for me to think of anybody producing much writing if his confidence is completely shot.
book thinking pieces
I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
book thinking three
I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.
thinking mind world
I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.
crown handed peter
Ross begat Shawn. He handed down the crown of St Peter to Shawn.
bush
Obliviously On He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme.
chicken following garlic jewish kept table vampires
Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.
best kansas
The best restaurants in the world are, of course, in Kansas City.
numbers looks queues
Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.
teacher math answers
Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.